Word: theme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Theme of Holiday is the dilemma of a young man forced to choose between marrying an heiress, who is ambitious to have him take a profitable job in her father's bank, and his own desire to stop making money and take a holiday to find out what life is all about. Johnny Case solves his problem neatly by leaving his fiancee, Julia, to rusticate in the Seton mansion, eloping with her older sister, Linda, who shares his disdain for her family bankroll. If, even in 1928, it was a little difficult to take seriously the plight...
Among the tender hearts of Hollywood, the strikers promptly found lush support. Humorist Frank Scully became chairman of the strikers' public relations committee, provided them with a theme song...
...season produced no first-rate comedy, and, though its biggest guns were all on the serious side, no important play with social significance. (Of Mice and Men and Golden Boy had social material, but no major social theme.) But social significance ran away with the musical field, providing a tense, pounding strike drama in The Cradle Will Rock, a fresh, spirited revue in Pins and Needles. Best of the straight musicals: Hooray for What!, thanks to the clowning of Ed Wynn, the music of Harold Arlen...
That night, at the first of three banquets, the theme was picked up by Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of the Chase National Bank, who last fortnight was one of 16 business leaders pledging co-operation with Mr. Roosevelt. Taking occasion to attribute the President's theory of economic crises to Karl Marx and asserting that pump-priming will prove futile, the crop-haired chairman of the biggest U. S. commercial bank proclaimed: "Reforms which, coming one by one. would be sound and helpful, can generate chaos if they come so quickly that men cannot adjust themselves to all of them...
...story of two fathers, lifelong friends, and their sons, it differs from most British family novels in one main respect. Instead of portraying the conflict of old and new social forces, it poses a more strictly moral theme: the evil consequences of parents trying to realize their unfulfilled ambitions in their sons. The worse example of deluded fatherhood is William Essex (narrator of the story), who rises from the Manchester slums to fame as a novelist, determines that his only son, Oliver, shall have all the advantages he missed. His friend, Dermot O'Riorden, dedicates his son Rory...